Green Hill Cemetery (Amsterdam, New York)

Green Hill Cemetery
Green Hill Cemetery (Amsterdam, New York) is located in New York
Green Hill Cemetery (Amsterdam, New York)
Green Hill Cemetery (Amsterdam, New York) is located in the United States
Green Hill Cemetery (Amsterdam, New York)
LocationChurch and Cornell Sts., Amsterdam, New York
Coordinates42°56′16″N 74°11′5″W / 42.93778°N 74.18472°W / 42.93778; -74.18472
Area41 acres (17 ha)
Built1857
ArchitectThomas, Burton A.
NRHP reference No.05000166[1]
Added to NRHPMarch 15, 2005

Green Hill Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at Amsterdam in Montgomery County, New York. It was established in 1858. Unitarian Minister Amory Dwight Mayo delivered the dedication address, which explained the role that cemeteries played in creating a "Christian Republic."[2] It encompasses 14,860 individual interments marked by imposing mausolea, elaborate monuments, family plots, decorative markers, and simple stones. It includes four contributing structures: Church Street entrance gate, upper pedestrian gate and path, receiving vault, and Sanford mausoleum.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.[1][3]

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ Alfred L. Brophy, "These Great and Beautiful Republics of the Dead": Public Constitutionalism and the Antebellum Cemetery
  3. ^ "New York SP Green Hill Cemetery". 2005.